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From the time of its 1978 Bakke decision--which agreed that a white applicant to medical school had been unjustly excluded by an affirmative- action quota--the court has mostly sown confusion on this issue. Goals are O.K., it says. Numerical quotas, in most instances, are not. Just how to achieve the first without falling into the second has been a problem, one that is at the heart of a Texas case currently on appeal...
...shots" in the Middle East peace process. It should reassess its foreign policy and take a closer look at that which it is supporting. What looks good for the President's record does not necessarily amount to peace. In terms of foreign policy, the U.S. will reap what it sown. If the standard of peace is compromised for the sake of public relations, real peace will be elusive...
...black artist to enter MOMA's collection. It seemed to both Alfred Barr of MOMA and Duncan Phillips that Lawrence's series represented a unique conjunction of black experience, history painting and a modernist idiom. They were right. From Benjamin West to Robert Rauschenberg, American art is sown with attempts, varying between utter bathos and success, to image forth the American story. And for reasons that are lamentably obvious, practically none of these were created by blacks, until Lawrence appeared...
Residents of Cambridge may not know it, but some of the seeds of peace in the Middle East have been sown in their back yards...
Although the upstairs communications area hasbeen newly renovated--complete with recessedlighting and a more open, spacious receptionarea--there is asbestos debris in the basementelectrical room as well as in pipes which runthroughout the building, according to Harvard'sown investigation of the building, a copy of whichwas obtained by The Crimson...